As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar. Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata's masterpiece, is a delicate, subtle meditation on love and its limits. Time flows in the same way for all human beings every human being flows through time in a different way. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. As he acknowledges in an afterword, the title Snow Country is a homage to Japanese Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1935 novella of the same name, published in English in 1956. Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan's mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
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